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REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE SOUTH AFRICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
During the year ending July 31, 1895. 
Since the last Annual General Meeting eight Ordinary Meetings have 
been held. The average attendance of members has been nine, and of 
visitors four, making an average total of thirteen. 
At the Ordinary Meetings four papers have been read on the subjects 
of ‘Mineralogy,’ ‘ Zoology,’ ‘ Meteorology,’ and ‘ Voice Production ’; 
notes on a variety of subjects have been brought before the Society. 
Brief accounts of these will be printed in the Notes of Proceedings. 
A large number of books has been received as exchanges or presenta- 
tions, A list of these will be published in the Proceedings. 
During the year five ordinary members have been elected, two have 
resigned, and the names of four have been removed for non-payment of 
their subscriptions ; the Society has lost one member by death; the 
total number of ordinary members is fifty-nine. 
The manuscript of the second part of Vol. VIII., 1892-95, is ready for 
the printer, and the Council has authorized the publication of Part 2 
of the ‘Descriptive Catalogue of the South African Coleoptera,’ which 
will complete Vol. VII. It is expected that these parts will be shortly 
in the hands of the members. 
L. PERINGUEY, 
General Secretary. 
